Southampton - ArtHamptons will return again on July 8 through July 11, as one of the major events of the Hamptons and the summer art season. Now entering its third successful year, ArtHamptons has already established itself as one of the top new fine art fairs in America as well as one of the major events of the Hamptons. In 2009, over 5,000 art enthusiasts streamed through. This year ArtHamptons will feature 93 highly respected U.S. and international galleries from six countries and 35 cities, the largest number of galleries ever in the show, including for the first time galleries from Russia, Argentina, Spain and eight galleries from Korea, as well as from the U.K. Seven Hamptons area galleries will be participating, as well. More than 600 artists ranging from the post-war to contemporary generation of art stars will be represented in the show. The exhibition will include a vetted selection of 7,000 art works valued at $300 million.

ArtHamptons will move two streets west of the Bridgehampton Historical Society (last year's location) to a much expanded site which will better accommodate the growth, traffic flow and special events program. Now held at Bridgehampton's Sayre Park's five acres, the new location will enable the construction of a spectacular 50,000 square foot modular building (the largest ever in the Hamptons), a magnificent 30,000 square foot Sculpture Garden/Hospitality Park and convenient and free on-site parking.

Only at ArtHamptons will visitors and residents on the East End of Long Island, NY, an international destination for the wealthy and a century-old community of artists, get to witness such a respected line-up of international upper-tier galleries assembled in such an impeccable museum-like setting. In addition to paintings, works on paper, photography and prints, the art fair will offer world-class glass art, ceramics and l'objects d'art. From the masters to important contemporary offerings, there will be something for everyone's budget level.

(David Davidovich Burliuk - "After Broadway Boogie Woogie" 2009, spray enamel on canvas, 70" x 72 ½". (Courtesy Art Link International, Lake Worth, FL)

More than 600 artists ranging from the post-war to contemporary generation of art stars will be represented in the show. The exhibition will include a vetted selection of 7,000 art works valued at $300 million. From the masters to important contemporary offerings, there will be something for everyone's budget level.

Last year, with post-show sales remaining vibrant for many galleries, a stunning $10 million in art sales was generated as a result of ArtHamptons.

Internationallly-recognized artist Donald Sultan, a Sag Harbor resident, will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award honoring excellence in the visual arts by an artist who has shaped the art scene in New York City and beyond. The Mary Ryan Gallery will present a one-person exhibition of his work including large-scale paintings, drawings and original prints. This will mark the first time in nearly 15 years that there has been a solo presentation of Sultan's work in the Hamptons. Past recipients of the award included Will Barnett and Jane Wilson.

Noted Rick Friedman, ArtHamptons founder, "We see the vibrant ArtHamptons sales last year and the most recent New York and London auctions with a sell though rate over 90 percent of the lots offered, are auspicious signs for the art world. We just returned from our company-produced San Francisco Fine Art Fair that ended on May 23 and experienced firsthand the vibrancy of the international art market right now: 15,000 enthusiasts streamed through; there was $5 million in sales, with red dots everywhere which we haven't seen at a fair since 2007."

The ArtHamptons exhibitors will include such notable galleries as Art Link International, DC Moore, Waterhouse and Dodd, Forum Gallery, Mary Ryan Gallery, June Kelly Gallery and Throckmorton Fine Art that will be exhibiting investment-level artwork from an international array of modern and contemporary artists such as Stella, Rauschenberg, de Kooning, Dufy, Sultan and Rauzier.

The Lifetime Achievement Award once again will honor excellence in the visual arts and go to an internationally recognized artist who has shaped the art scene in New York City and beyond. Donald Sultan will be the recipient this year. He has been a Sag Harbor resident since 1985. The Mary Ryan Gallery will present a one-person exhibition of his work including large-scale paintings, drawings and original prints. This will mark the first time in nearly 15 years that there has been a solo presentation of Sultan's work in the Hamptons. Past recipients of the award included Will Barnett and Jane Wilson.

Jean-Francois Rauzier - "Bibliotheque Ideale 3," C-Type print Edition of eight, 150 x 250 cm/ 59" x 98" (Courtesy Waterhouse & Dodd, London, U.K.)

New trends in art will be represented, for instance, by the famous graffiti artist "Crash" (b. John Matos), a pioneer of the Graffiti art movement, whose work will be exhibited in a solo booth by Art Link international. In the 1970's Crash was spray painting murals on New York City trains and by the 1980s he had exhibits throughout the U.S. Art Link also will present a solo exhibit of David Burliuk, a central figure in the history of the Russian avant-garde movement who painted in the 1940s and who recently came into vogue. Burliuk worked and lived in Hampton Bays and Northampton in the town of Southampton.

ArtBklyn, a new component of the fair, dubbed "The Hamptons Meets 'The Burg,'" will feature galleries from Brooklyn's Williamsburg and DUMBO, which have grown into internationally-known art locations where cutting-edge art is incubated.

Donald Sultan - "Mimosa, Jan. 9, 2008" 2008, crayon and charcoal on paper, 46" x 55" (Courtesy of the artist and Mary Ryan Gallery, New York City)

The First Annual Worldwide Art Collectors' Conference on July 9 to July 11 will provide art collectors valuable insights and advice on building an art collection, including 14 practical seminars featuring world experts in specific topics, as well as tours of private art collections in the Hamptons. Sessions will be geared for both beginner and experienced collectors. The two days of sessions will be moderated by Benjamin Genocchio, editor in chief, Art & Auction and former art and culture critic for The New York Times.

More than 5,000 people are expected to come by including past "famous shoppers" such as TV personalities Kelsey Grammar, Joy Behar, Connie Chung, Katie Couric, Donnie Deutsch, Rosanna Scotto, Countess LuAnn de Lesseps, Jonathan Tisch, musical greats Russell Simmons, Rev. Run, Jon Bon Jovi, and fashion icons Dennis Basso, Nicole Miller, David Yurman, and author Edward Albee. The scene is reminiscent of and referred to by many attendees as "the mini-Art Basel" of the Hamptons.

The Opening Preview Party will be held on July 8, 6 p.m to 9 p.m., in the VIP Lounge; admission is $75 at the door and will benefit East Hampton's LongHouse Reserve. Show hours are Friday, July 9, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., Saturday, July 10, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., Sunday, July 11, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Admission is $20 a day ($15 in advance online) and a three-day pass is $30 ($25 online). A Gold Passport for the opening preview party and three-day admission is $75 ($65 online). Free on-site parking is provided. Children under 16 admitted free. The site is pet friendly (leashes required). Sayre Park is located on Snake Hollow Road, Bridgehampton.

On Saturday of the show, all door proceeds go to the Bridgehampton Historical Society. For more information about the Historical Society, call 631-537-1088.

For tickets and for further information go to www.arthamptons.com.

The highest number of galleries (95) will be participating in the 2010 fair placing it among the top shows in America. It represents a 40 percent increase over 2009.

Some additional events that will be taking place include:

Join the Worldwide Art Collectors' Conference on Friday and Saturday, July 9 and July 10. Sotheby's chairman Lisa Dennison will be the luncheon speaker at this elite conference on what you really need to know to buy and sell art. Hosted by Benjamin Genocchio, Art & Auction editor, there will be 14 impactful sessions with top gallerists and art world experts such as Henry Buhl, Louis Meisel and Jamie Drake. Also features a Sunday tour of private estates to view some of the top collections in the Hamptons. Presented in cooperation with the YPO/WPO Art Network; sponsored in part by Sotheby's Auction House.

Meet The Artists And Book-Signings
Donald Sultan - Saturday, July 10, 2 p.m. to 3 p.m., Collector's Lounge. John 'Crash' Matos
Hans de von Bovenkamp
Bill Armstrong - The Photographs from the Infinity Series
Susan Wides - Catalog "Art & Entertainment"
Luc Leestemaker - The Intentional Artist: Stories From My Life
Dolly Moreno and John Henry, Sculptors

 • Meet The Authors: Sunday, July 11, 12 noon to 1:30 p.m.
It's an art book festival, a first in the Hamptons! What a great opportunity to meet, mingle and share stories, at one time, with many of the most distinguished writers/artists around today. Each writer/artist is here to meet you and sign their book for you. Books are available for sale - and then immediate signing. Each author will present their vision for the book onstage, briefly, as part of the action.

D. Frederick Baker with co-author Carolyn Lane and Robin Chase, granddaugther to William Merrit Chase signing, William Merritt Chase: The Complete Catalogue of Known and Documented Work by William Merritt Chase, Volume IV. This fourth volume in a four-part catalog raissonne on Chase covers Chase's paintings of the 1880s and early 1890s and reproduces a variety of paintings that together give marvelous insight into his exemplary depiction of light and shadow.

Helen Harrison and Constance Ayers Denne - "Hamptons Bohemia" - An unspoiled coastline bathed in spectacular light - just far enough from the Manhattan bustle - made the Hamptons seductive for generations of creative types. 'Hamptons Bohemia:' Two Centuries of Artists and Writers on the Beach, is an entertaining survey of the personalities who found a summer or year-round haven on the southeastern end of Long Island. The story begins with 19th century figures like James Fenimore Cooper. Then came genteel landscape painters. By the 1950s the era of Jackson Pollock, William de Kooning, Frank O'Hara, among others, Bohemia was in full swing. Since then the Hamptons have become a clubby getaway for artists who've already made it.

Elliott Erwitt - With a touch of humor and an eye for the humane, Elliott Erwitt's black and white photographs reveal the most basic and candid human emotions. He developed his vision during the post-war rise of documentary photojournalism, and has captured many of life's most poignant ironies through an amusing vernacular. Born in Paris and raised in California and New York, Erwitt pursued a photographic career in journalism, fashion and print advertisement. He is a member of the prestigious Magnum agency since 1953. His photographs are in museums around the world, including MOMA, NY; Smithsonian, Art Institute of Chicago, and Kunsthaus, Zurich.

John Gruen - Facing the Artist: Portraits by John Jonas Gruen June 3 through August 8. Gruen has made it his business to be the right place at the right time. During his many years in Manhattan, Gruen - critic, author and keen cultural observer - has moved with ease among dancers, musicians, playwrights and poets. He seems, however, to have reserved a special interest in painters and sculptors. Through the year, Gruen has captured many of them in his photographs. The collection shown here came from an exhibition of his work at The Whitney Museum of Art, organized by Elisabeth Sussman, Sondra Gilman Curator of Photography.

Marika Herskovic - NY Abstract Expressionism, American Abstract Expressionism, NY Abstract Expressionism provides a complete documentation of the New York Painting and Sculpture Annuals held initially as the 9th Street Exhibition and continued at the Stable Gallery in NYC from 1951-1957, showing the work of the pioneers of the NY School Abstract Expressionist Artists. American Abstract Expressionism is a follow-up to NY Abstract Expressionism.

Sue Kwon - Street Level collects 20 years of documentary and commercial photography by esteemed New York photographer Kwon. Her subjects include some of Hip Hop's finest, such as the BeastieBoys, Biggie Smalls and the Wu-Tang Clan, as well as portraits and street scenes from New York's most charismatic neighborhoods - Little Italy, Chinatown, Coney Island, the Lower East Side and a pre-Guilliani Times Square.

Ellen G. Landau - Jackson Pollock: The role of the art historian as biographer is beset with contradictions, an artist's life and art being neither mutually exclusive nor synonymous. Balanced in his life on the edge of destruction and in his art on that of innovation, Pollock mirrored a chaotic world, one in which humans seemed to have lost control. This book treats Pollock's personal life, creative work, and cultural mileu as discrete elements that produce a gradually developing image of Pollock as rebellious cowboy or counterculture loner.

Diane McManus Jensen - The Art of Collecting: An Intimate Tour Inside Private Art Collections with Advice on Starting Your Own reveals private collectors' discoveries of art and artists, and the often intriguing journey along the way. This book offers readers a rare opportunity to explore 23 art collections and provides a glimpse into how they have evolved. Featuring lush photography of the collections, and personal interviews with each of the collectors, 'The Art of Collecting' also includes essays on various topics by experts in each of their fields, offering insights into areas such as: lighting, framing, insurance and more. The book serves two purposes: providing readers with a first-hand glimpse into magnificent collections, and inspiring them to embark on their own journey of collecting.

Klaus Ottman - Fairfield Porter Raw - The Creative Process of An American Master, Rackstraw Downes. Ottman is the Robert Lehman Curator at the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton, and teaches theory of art and exhibitions at the School of Visual Arts. He will be signing books he has written from two recent exhibitions he organized at the Parrish Art Museum. Fairfield Porter: Raw.

Dan Rattiner - In the Hamptons Too - As the editor and publisher of Dan's Papers, the area's popular free newspaper, Rattiner has been living in and covering the Hamptons for over 50 years, and has watched it change from sleepy backwater of fishing villages and potato farms to a playground for the rich and famous. In this follow-up to his popular book, "In the Hamptons," Rattiner continues to regale us with tales of the people who live, work and play in one of America's best-known summer colonies.

John Torreano - "Drawing by Seeing" - "Why can't I draw what I see?" Long-time drawing instructor and celebrated artist Torreano answers this much-asked question in "Drawing by Seeing." In this accessible and visually engaging book, Torreano shares the lessons, based on gestalt theory, that he has used to successfully teach thousands of students to draw accurately and with confidence.

"Snails Gallop" Performance Art Unveiled at Preview Party, July 8 - "Snail's Gallop" is an answer to the question of how much ecological awareness and physical expression are being requested from human beings in a time of excessively reproduced images through multimedia and technology. In the performance, the Korean artist Kon Yong Lee squats down and continuously takes small steps forward little by little. While he advances, he draws lines on his left side and right side and leaves his foot marks naturally on those lines. The piece is about 60 feet long. This body drawing represents the expression of the behavior of human being in a physical and ecological way and emblematically shows the history of human creation. Therefore the "Snail's Gallop" is appropriate to be performed for an opening ceremony.

 • Meet the Authors, Sun. July 11, 12 noon to 1:30 p.m.
Nine of today's leading art book authors will be on hand to autograph their books. Topics eclectically range from Southampton's William Merritt Chase to 1970's NYC's graffiti artist, Crash, and everything in between. Meet the esteemed authors of the most popular art-oriented books on the market today. Featuring book signing and stirring author presentations.

Sculpture Garden and Hospitality Park
Meander through an acre of memorable sculptures in the pastoral Sculpture Garden featuring welcoming hospitality tents. Groove to the funky sounds of the three-piece steel band sets on Saturday and Sunday in the Sculpture Garden, presented by Jamaica Tourism.

 • Gateway to ArtHamptons: Hans de van Bovenkamp's Sculpture - Enter the grounds through Hans de van Bovenkamp's spectacular sculpture "The Sagg Portal", destined to be one of the most dramatic art fair entrances ever.

 • Syd Solomon Retrospective - Explore a 1950s-1970s retrospect on legendary East Hampton painter Syd Solomon. (1917-2004).

 • Catch the "Wave" Registration Counter - Designed by Studio EU-US, San Francisco, especially for ArtHamptons, the "Wave" is a unique, contemporary illuminated, translucent console of flowing curves that appear to give the piece a floating lightness reminiscent of waves. Created with laser cut technology of triangulated forms of translucent and illuminated acrylic panels.

ArtHamptons: a Carbon Neutral Event - ArtHamptons will be a carbon neutral event for the first time this year through a partnership with Belgrave Trust, a social enterprise dedicated to providing innovation driven solutions to climate change. Employing a diversified, actively managed portfolio of carbon offset projects, Belgrave Trust will account for - and offset - emissions resulting directly from ArtHamptons, including facilities, hospitality, transport, and on-site energy usage. A web-based membership community, The Belgrave Trust, www.belgravetrust.com, leverages the transformative power of global markets to provide the most efficient and effective way for businesses and individuals to live carbon neutral.